According to a report from Adweek, several advertising companies met with Twitter’s new owner last week, but found he was unable to answer key questions about — you guessed it — content moderation.
In addition to General Motors, Audi, and General Mills, advertising agencies representing other brands, including Sony, Nestle, Subway, and Mazda, have also reportedly paused advertising on Twitter.
Musk’s revamped vision of Twitter Blue hasn’t even gone live yet, but that hasn’t stopped him from teasing new features — including one the platform has already been working on.
The self-labeled “Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator” says the platform will soon let you attach “long-form text to tweets,” like the Notes feature Twitter started testing before Musk’s takeover. He also says he wants to update search within Twitter and enable creator monetization “for all forms of content.”
Astronomers using Hawaii’s Gemini North telescope discovered a black hole that’s 10 times the size of the sun and 1,560 light-years away from Earth (via Space.com).
But don’t worry, scientists say this stellar-mass black hole, named the Gaia BH1, isn’t consuming entire stars just yet. The black hole is considered dormant... at least for now.
[www.noirlab.edu]
We’ve already met Wiglett, Grafaiai, and the adorable Fidough, but a Pokémon Go data miner uncovered a new “coin” Pokémon that could appear in the upcoming Scarlet and Violet games.
The purple, bug-like pocket monster has a gold coin on its back that appears to be held up by its tail (or a third antenna?). Eagle-eyed fans first spotted the creature during a game trailer released in October.
